00:00On the subject of student deportations,
00:03several pro-Israel activist groups
00:05are providing U.S. authorities with the names
00:08of people involved in last year's pro-Palestinian protests.
00:12Among those names are naturalized Americans,
00:15people originally from the Middle East,
00:16but who are now U.S. citizens.
00:18Can you tell me, is the U.S. weighing any action
00:20against American citizens who spoke out
00:22during last year's protests?
00:25Well, I would have to speculate on that.
00:27I also, if, I'm not going to discuss the nature
00:32of the diplomatic or strategic conversations
00:35that any department in the government's having,
00:37let alone the State Department.
00:39What I can tell you is, just repeating what the Secretary,
00:43what Secretary Rubio has said,
00:45is that if you come into this country,
00:48if you've lied to get in this country,
00:50and you've come into this country and have committed crimes
00:54or have clearly, if you've done something,
00:57whereas if you told us you were going to do it
00:59when you were applying for that visa,
01:00you would never have gotten that visa.
01:02And we are going to be very aggressive
01:04in the nature of acting on that.
01:06He's made that very clear,
01:08but I won't discuss the nature of decision-making
01:11in that framework or speculate on the nature
01:14of what the department will be doing.
01:14So even someone who's become a naturalized U.S. citizen
01:17could still be, you're saying could still be subject?
01:19Don't draw conclusions,
01:20because I'm not answering your question.
01:21Okay.
01:22That's a big mistake.
01:23I'm not answering the specifics of your question.
01:27Very, don't draw that conclusion.
01:31Don't put words in my mouth.
01:32That's not what I said.
01:32Yes, sir.
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